Jul 16, 2026

Ethics debate shouldn’t derail crypto market structure, says Blockchain Associat...

A former CFTC commissioner urged lawmakers not to “kill all the hard work that we put in the rest of the bill” by making ethics a...

Jul 16, 2026

Morgan Stanley’s E*TRADE launches spot crypto trading through Zero Hash

Eligible E*TRADE retail clients can now buy, sell and hold Bitcoin, Ether and Solana through a partnership with crypto infrastruct...

Jul 16, 2026

Tradable’s $1B Stellar deal adds to institutional tokenization boom

Tradable will bring up to $1 billion in private credit assets to Stellar, extending the blockchain’s push into institutional finan...

Jul 16, 2026

Alpaca raises $135M to fund tokenized agent-first infrastructure

The BNP-backed brokerage infrastructure provider is expanding into tokenized markets and AI-native financial services as both DeFi...

Jul 16, 2026

Prediction markets defy crypto downturn with record Q2 volume: CoinGecko

Prediction markets reached a record $113.8 billion in notional volume in Q2 as spot CEX trading, derivatives volume and stablecoin...

Jul 16, 2026

MoonPay buys Glide to bolster crypto deposits infrastructure

MoonPay acquired Glide, a crypto infrastructure startup founded by former Robinhood Wallet engineers, to expand cross-chain crypto...

Jul 16, 2026

Tokenized stocks market cap gains to record $2.3B

The market capitalization of tokenized stocks rose to a record $2.3 billion, as investors sought exposure to the growing list of t...

Jul 16, 2026

FATF urges faster crypto AML enforcement as stablecoin crime increases

The global task force said criminal networks are using stablecoins and developing proprietary tokens to evade asset freezes as cou...

Jul 16, 2026

ARK pushes back against a16z’s ‘TradFi wants blockchain, not DeFi’ claim

ARK Invest’s director of research disputed a16z crypto’s thesis that traditional finance will adopt permissioned blockchain infras...

Jul 16, 2026

Autonomous AI agent economy faces infrastructure gaps: Visa, Artemis

Visa and Artemis found that infrastructure bottlenecks are preventing broader commercial adoption of the autonomous AI agent econo...